El beso de los océanos

The kiss of the oceans tells the story of Juan de Santander, a Cantabrian boy who, at the age of twelve or thirteen, enlists in the expedition of Magellan and Elcano, an adventure that more than 250 men began and only he and 17 other sailors finished. . The boy will learn from the overwhelming personality of Admiral Ferdinand Magellan, from the audacity of Juan Sebastián Elcano, from the courage of Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa and will be immersed in the struggles between Portuguese and Castilian sailors to take control of the expedition. His experiences and those of Aldara, the girl thanks to whom he manages to enroll in the expedition and who will be immersed in a plot of corruption and murder in Seville at the beginning of the 16th century, merge in the pages of this exciting story. After their respective journeys, both will reach adulthood and experience hardship, but they will also discover love and friendship. All this, against the backdrop of the clashes between the great maritime powers of the time: Castile and Portugal, which were struggling to dominate the commercial routes of spices, which in the 16th century were more valuable than gold or silver; between Carlos I of Spain and Francisco I of France for obtaining the favor of Pope Leo X to seize the crown of the Holy Roman Empire, and between the officials of the Casa de Contratación de Sevilla for controlling the wealth that is already beginning to arrive from the The new World. Terrible fights between the most powerful that ended up dragging the most humble. The kiss of the oceans is an unforgettable story of mutinies on board, desertions, betrayals, discoveries, murders and, above all, of survival and overcoming.